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Today my mouth leads me to Paris, namely to the Bar à Soupe in rue de Charonne, just below the first flat I lived in during the master … well, my mouth takes me back in time …

This cream is not just like the original recipe – hoping that Anne-Catherine, owner of the restaurant, will forgive me – but the result, in my opinion, a very good one, after several attempts.

A very cool French recipe: peas cream with mint

A very cool French recipe: peas cream with mint

The peas cream with mint recipe

600 grams of peas (frozen it’s ok, but if you prepare the spring with fresh ones is even better)
2 onions
8 lettuce leaves
1 liter of water
15 cl whipping cream
2 sprigs mint
salt
pepper

How to prepare it

Clean the vegetables and chop onion and salad.
Put the vegetables in a pot and boil for 25 minutes.
Turn the flame off, add the cream and mint and blend everything in the mixer.
Add salt and pepper to your taste.

Today I am eating it cold, so I left it in the fridge for about an hour, but hot is delicious too!

Bon appétit !

PS If you wish to have some tips for a very Parisian stay…

Silvia Moggia

Silvia Moggia is an Italian travel writer, boutique hotel owner and tourism consultant based in Levanto, on the Ligurian coast. After fifteen years working in opera houses, including the Paris Opera and the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, she returned home to run a small hotel in the Cinque Terre and to write. She travels independently and usually alone, on foot, on horseback and under sail, and writes about it honestly, the difficult parts as well as the good ones. She also works on sustainable tourism and destination management, writing about overtourism from inside a place that lives with it. Everything on Silvia's Trips is based on direct experience